If you were expecting mega-business leader in our charts, think
again. Placed in the number fourteenth slot is the man who has since 1988 been a
close advisor to HH Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. Outside
the royal family, nobody has had a bigger say in the growth of Qatar.
Dr Ibrahim was between 2006 and 2011 the secretary general for
the General Secretariat for Development Planning (GSDP). He has very much been at
the heart of the development process for the Qatar National Vision 2030, and is
now also leading Qatar’s
First National Development Strategy. As the tiny state realises its global ambitions,
almost every plan and process is going through Dr Ibrahim’s desk.
Dr Ibrahim has experience in the oil and gas industry. He is
the vice chairman of the board of RasGas Company Limited and chairman of the Marketing
Committee. He is a member of the board of directors of Qatar Petroleum (QP), Qatar
Gas and Industries Qatar, vice chairman of the board of directors of Qatar Petroleum
International and Industrial Bank and member of the board of Qatar Central Bank.
Dr Ibrahim was an Associate Professor of Business, Economics
and Quantitative methods at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA from 1970–1978,
Director of the Economic Department of the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting
Countries, Kuwait from 1979–1986, and a senior economist at the Oxford Institute
for Energy Studies, Oxford, England from 1986-1988.
Dr Ibrahim holds a PhD in Business
Administration from New York
University in 1969 and his
scholarly research has been published internationally in the areas of forecasting,
business economics and energy economics.
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